At 18, I was unofficially engaged to an Iranian exchange student 8 years my senior, with an MBA degree. His father had been one of the Shah's ambassadors, he said.
After 6 months of studying NOTHING but Iran and the Middle East, and reading the Qu'ran/Koran, I, who had been brought up in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A., determined that I was NOT to marry this man and go to Iran to be a teacher. And, I can thank God I never did. "Not Without My Daughter" starring Sally Field, could have been my story. I wanted nothing , ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, to do with that religion!!! Any intelligent, well-read, 18 y.o. Christian ought to be able to figure that out!